(30 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quito, Ecuador – 30 June 2025
1. Former vice president of Ecuador, Jorge Glas, arriving for reading of sentence
2. Various of Glas with his lawyers
3. Lawyer Andres Villegas preparing to speak to media
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Andres Villegas, Jorge Glas’ lawyer:
"With this sentence, the last vestige of dignity that remained in the Ecuadorian criminal justice system has been buried. It was recognized that former Vice President (Jorge) Glas did not administer public funds. But then, in order to justify this fraudulent conviction, it was said that he was the driving force behind the contracting of the projects that are the object of this trial."
5. Mid of Villegas
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Andres Villegas, Jorge Glas’ lawyer :
"This is the first, it is the first instance. We still have a second instance which is appeal. But then there are two extraordinary appeals that are not new instances that do not allow us to reopen the whole file, the whole process, but are limited to analyze the sentence, which is the appeal for cassation and the extraordinary appeal for review".
7. Military personnel in courtroom
8. Military personnel leaving courtroom
9. Judges entering courtroom
10. Judges seated
11. Mid of judge speaking
12. Exterior of court
STORYLINE:
The former vice president of Ecuador who was detained last year during a highly criticized police raid on Mexico’s embassy in the South American country was sentenced on Monday to 13 years in prison.
Jorge Glas had been accused of misusing public funds intended for the reconstruction of two provinces affected by an earthquake in 2016.
The quake devastated communities and killed hundreds of people.
Glas became vice president in 2013, during the presidency of Rafael Correa, and was removed from that position in January 2018, when he was charged in a corruption case tied to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
Judge Mercedes Caicedo said the funds for reconstruction efforts following the earthquake were allocated to “useless, unusable and unnecessary buildings” disregarding the law, and above all, “with complete disrespect for the victims.”
The court also barred Glas from ever holding public office and fined him $28,800.
Glas is already in a maximum-security prison serving time in two other corruption cases.
He was detained in April 2024 when police stormed Mexico’s embassy in Ecuador’s capital, Quito, hours after he had been granted asylum.
The embassy raid sparked outrage among world leaders, who criticized Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa.
Diplomatic premises are considered foreign soil and “inviolable” under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and host country law enforcement agencies are not allowed to enter without the permission of the ambassador.
Ecuador’s government defended the arrest, arguing that Glas was a fugitive wanted in corruption cases, not for political reasons, and therefore was not eligible for Mexico’s diplomatic protection.
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